What has Middlesbrough given to the world music scene?

[Brian Marwood]

Here in Hull we are proud of the following who have graced the world music scene but what have you done?

The Housemartins
The Beautiful South
Mick Ronson
Trevor Bolder
Fine Young Cannibals
Sade (her band)
Everything But The Girl
Calum Scott
David Whitfield
Joe Longthorne
Kingmaker
Patricia Bredin (Britains first ever act at Eurovision)
Henry Priestman
Berri (Rebecca Sleight)
Tinman
Scarlet

 

[speckyget]

Joe Longthorne

 

[GeneParmesan]

Rod Temperton was from Hull as well I think

 

[BigAl76]

Off the top of my head.....

Maxiimo Park
James Arthur
Cattle and Cane
Journey South
Chris Rea

Sure there are other more spurious artists........

 

[Brian Marwood]

Rod Temperton was from Hull as well I think

Cleethorpes.

 

[GeneParmesan]

Throbbing Gristle were from Hull

 

[h_m_boro]

David Coverdale is from Saltburn - close enough?

 

[BrisVegasRed]

Cleethorpes.

Paul Rodger’s (Free, Bad Company)
Dave Coverdale (Deep Purple, Whitesnake).

 

[BlindBoyGrunt]

Mick Moody.

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

Off the top of my head.....

Maxiimo Park
James Arthur
Cattle and Cane
Journey South
Chris Rea

Sure there are other more spurious artists........

That X Factor girl, Amelia Lily

 

[Ash88]

Paul Rodger’s (Free, Bad Company)
Dave Coverdale (Deep Purple, Whitesnake).

Those two also had a band with Bruce Thomas - from Stockton - who later became the bass player for Elvis Costello.

 

[GeneParmesan]

Don't forget Chris Kamara's Christmas LP

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

Some of the Hull claims are a little bit far stretched too.

For example EBTG, Tracey is from Hertfordshire and Ben is from London, they just got together whilst at Uni in Hull.

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

The fat bigot that is Roy Chubby Brown got a number 3 hit with Smoky, and unfortunatley he's from Middlesbrough.

 

[Cress]

Dunstan Bruce

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

If we extend it out to Teesside then Janick Gers who is a guitarist in Iron Maiden is from Hartlepool, but lives in Yarm I believe.

 

[speckyget]

Eddie Jobson, virtuoso electric violinist out of Curved Air and Roxy Music - proud Billinghamian (along with Jet from Gladiators).

 

[Grrreds]

If we're saying Amelia Lily then we can say Journey South

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

If we're saying Amelia Lily then we can say Journey South

Which @BigAl76 did in the post I replied to.

 

[SE4 Red]

The Young Uns and Vin Garbutt if we were to go down a folk route.